It had been starving terribly.
That damn Kripper hauled bricks and mixed concrete every day, building walls to keep it out, until its mouth was practically flavorless.
Under normal circumstances, it would not have gone this crazy.
But! The appearance of the Biying Bird was like the most tempting poison. Even if it was bait, it had no choice but to bite.
So here was the question.
With the towering walls of The Preservation Aeon blocking the way, how had the Aeon of Gluttony gotten through?
And how had it managed to do so without any of the Aeons sensing or noticing it?
No sooner had the words been spoken than it happened!
Using the power of the Biying Bird, Deified Kiana and Deified Mei once again erased another Aeon as if they were beings from a higher narrative layer.
That meant... the Aeon of Gluttony had fallen just like that.
And the truth behind it all could not escape anyone present.
Even if their vision had been obscured before, once the incident occurred, there was no longer any obstruction.
"Looks like we calculated it pretty accurately... You really did make a move." Deified Kiana smiled without the slightest resentment.
That was the Mysterious Aeon, Mihr. Only if she took action to obscure the workings of fate and fabricate history could even the Aeon of Intellect be impeded.
If it was her...
The prepared had schemed against the unprepared.
That explanation did make sense!
But clearly.
It was not just her...
Deified Kiana and Deified Mei looked toward what seemed to be some distant place.
Downstream along the River of Time, a ruin-like figure crouched there.
That was the Aeon of Finality.
According to the setting,
the Aeon of Finality had come from the future, traveling backward against the flow